[Ubuntu-SG] Starting a collection of tips for newbs for after they install jaunty...

[Billy AM]

me use ktorrent. :P Just have to open the port in my firewall via
firestarter and it runs pretty well.

regards
Billy

PS: Sorry didn't do reply-to-all

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Ravi Mohan <faileas.greywolf at gmail.com>wrote:

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>
> C David Rigby wrote:
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> On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 12:17 +0800, David Widder wrote:
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>  If you live in Singapore, the default Bit-Torrent Client will not work
> by default. Go to add/remove in the Applications menu, uncheck
> “Transmission”, and tick “Deluge” and click apply, and you will have
> uninstalled Transmission, and replaced it with Deluge, a great
> Bit-Torrent that works well in Singapore.
>
>
>
>  Is this a recent development? I know that I've successfully used
> Transmission in the not-too-distant past...
>
> Regards
> C David Rigby
>
>
> Thats new to me too. Apparently torrents work better with protocol
> encryption, and i vaguely recall the last time i used transmission
> (which was a little while back), that was supported.In any case, least
> on starhub, it works to some extent, in my experience.
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>  I found transmission worked for me too. Any client with protocol
> encryption does well
>
> As for actual ideas.. I'd suggest adding the medibuntu repositories and
> installing, amongst other things the w32/64 codecs (course, there's the
> whole licencing thing there). Even without it, medibuntu has quite a
> few useful packages such as google earth, and is prolly worth it.
>
> Wine is semi useful for people first making the transition from windows to linux, though it not being 100% is something that needs to be made clear
>
> Other than that, i tend to install openssh server (for various reasons,port tunneling from a remote location for security - with putty on windows for example).
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